Media Criticism
I would have thought conservatives would like more stories of anti-war liberals going after the Democratic Senators. But I guess bashing the P-I will always be a higher priority this far away from the election.
Seattle PI reports on huge anti-war protest!
The title is supposed to be ironic. But, I’ve been to bigger protests that didn’t get coverage from the P-I. I’ve also seen some of the pro-war rallies that got coverage, and I’m pretty sure they were even smaller.
The Seattle PI today ran a 300+ word story under the headline “Anti-war protest held at federal building”.
Brian White seems to think that the P-I shouldn’t be covering the protests. It seems pretty silly to me. I mean they shouldn’t devote 20 reporters, but a 300 word story buried in the local section seems more relevant than some of the other stories in the same section that day. It seems more relevant to world events than a peanut butter lawsuit, for example. And the P-I has space to fill between those ads.
The second paragraph begins with the phrase, “Nearly 20 protesters from various Puget Sound-area peace groups gathered at the Jackson Federal Building…”
The same paragraph also talked about a possible sit in at Cantwell’s office. I guess that sort of thing is only relevant when it might hurt her chances of re-election. The story was more about the state’s two Senator’s positions on the war and the fact that there will be protests all week than the fact that there was one on Tuesday.
That’s right. Fewer than 20 people. Good thing the PI was on it.
As I said before, the pro war rallies were attended by probably less than a dozen people, but were covered in both of the daily newspapers. So yeah, what bastards the P-I are for covering something that’s happening.
February 25th, 2007 at 6:28 pm
No cries of “treason!” against either the P-I or the protesters? Our local wingnuts must need new tinfoil liners for their chapeaus.